Mike Pompeo
The Free Press, Apr. 18, 2025
“This “war or deal” narrative is being peddled by many of the “populist” Tucker Carlson-esque isolationists who have burrowed inside President Trump’s orbit. They repeat this mantra, exactly as President Barack Obama and Secretary John Kerry repeated endlessly—and wrongly.”
In early April, President Trump reportedly “waved off” an Israeli plan to strike nuclear facilities in Iran. When asked, Trump did not deny it but rather said he preferred to try diplomacy because he thinks “that Iran has a chance to have a great country and to live happily without death.”
The thousands of victims of Iran’s terror machine know all too well that “living happily without death” is impossible under the current regime. And a fake deal focused solely on nuclear enrichment will result in far less happiness and more death, not the reverse—not only for the Iranian people but for human beings all across the world.
Consider the Iranian citizens murdered by the regime, the Americans murdered in the attack on the U.S. embassy in Beirut, or those of us, including President Trump, threatened with assassination by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. This regime has shown no intention of becoming a normal country but rather daily evinces depravity.
President Trump is pursuing a deal with Iran while it is at its weakest strategic point in decades. Its proxies—Hamas and Hezbollah—have been decimated by Israel. Sunni states, like Saudi Arabia, are readying for normalization with the Jewish state—and are opposed to a nuclear Iran.
The president’s hand could not be stronger…..SOURCE